Status Bar Text Color iOS 7

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AJ112 picture AJ112 · Sep 28, 2013 · Viewed 61.8k times · Source

I am unable to change the text colour in the status bar in iOS 7 SDK. Currently its black and i want it to be white for all my view controllers in a storyboard.

I have seen few questions on StackOverflow like THIS, THIS and THIS but they didn't of much help. Also may be due to the fact that i am unable to find UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to YES in my plist file.

Can any one tell me the right way to set the status bar text colour to white for all view controllers in the storyboard? Thanks in advance!

Answer

KC. picture KC. · Sep 28, 2013

Let me give you a complete answer to your question. Changing the status bar text colour is very easy but its a little confusing in iOS 7 specially for newbies.

If you are trying to change the colour from black to white in StoryBoard by selecting the view controller and going to Simulated Metrics on the right side, it won't work and i don't know why. It should work by changing like this but any how.

Secondly, you won't find UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance property in your plist but by default its not there. You have to add it by yourself by clicking on the + button and then set it to NO.

ios 7 status bar text color

Lastly, you have to go to your AppDelegate.m file and add the following in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method, add the following line:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];

This will change the colour to white for all your view controllers. Hope this helps!

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